Finished Jaunty

Alex dropped by on Saturday with my blocked Jaunty.

Pattern: Jaunty (pattern purchased on Ravelry)

Yarn: 5 skeins Spincycle Dyed in the Wool

Colour: Poppy

Needles: 3.75mm

I love this pattern. It is mindless but not boring. I will be making it again.

This could be my next Jaunty. It’s a brand new colour coming from Spincycle within the next two weeks.

Yesterday afternoon I finished my Ooey Gooey Cowl. It needs to be blocked and then the ends grafted together.

Then I picked up my Nightshift. I wanted to blog last night but I was trying to get the stitches cast off first. I had about 20 stitches left when it was bed time. I’ll get it finished later today.

This was about 6:30 last night. It didn’t look too bad outside.

This morning I went out to get dad’s newspaper. I had to dig a path to get it.

Mike came from the workshop this morning to get the driveway clean. Sending thoughts to those who got slammed.

Emma’s Theme Packs

We received an email from Emma’s this week that select Theme Packs are being discontinued to make way for new colourways coming soon. We have marked down the discontinued kits.

Theme Packs are available online and in the store. See all the colours.

Lisa K. Ross (Paper Daisy Creations) has a beautiful shawl pattern called Perennial It is stunning! You can purchase the pattern on Ravelry.

Perennial plants, when cultivated, can be everlasting. They come back year after year, no matter what happens in between. Handknits, when carefully tended, are the same. This scarf is effortlessly knit on the bias, highlights your palette, drapes beautifully when worn, and will return year after year to keep you warm and stylish. It’s the perfect canvas to play with beautiful yarns, transitioning colors through a combination of garter, stockinette, and easy-to-knit wildflowers.

Lisa knit the shawl with a Theme Pack from Emma’s. You can knit the shawl with the Practically Perfect Small Theme Pack or the Super Silky Small Theme Pack. 

This shawl is called Tropical Dilemma and you can purchase the pattern on Ravelry. 

The pattern calls for a Theme Pack from Emma’s in Practically Perfect Sock. For the sample we used a Theme Pack in Super Silky. Super Silky is 80% Superwash Merino and 20% Silk. The drape is amazing.

From Emma’s Mom, Laura, who designed the shawl.

I live in the subtropics where we enjoy year round sunshine and hot sticky summers. I often find myself in a dilemma, do I dress for the weather outside or the weather inside? Outside the sun is blazing and inside the air is frigid, almost freezing! Enter Tropical Dilemma, the perfect take everywhere 

This gorgeous shawl is knit from the top down, beginning with a garter tab cast on. As you add increases to the spine and edges a triangular shape is formed. The simple repeat of knits and purl rows are memorizable and meditative, making this the perfect lazy day, knit night or Netflix project! Grab a kit of colorful yarn or use up bits from your beautiful stash, this shawl is all about letting the yarn do the heavy lifting so you can relax and enjoy!

Capricorn is a new Theme Pack coming next week.

I went way back again. This shawl is from November of 2016 - Winter Cove (pattern purchased on Ravelry) knit with 2 skeins of Malabrigo Rasta on 15mm needles.

A lightly-fulled single-ply yarn of magnum proportions! Whip out a super-cozy accessory in just hours with this super-sized delight of a yarn. Our premium Uruguayan merino is just as soft as ever, and Rasta comes in a range of our unique “watercolor multi” colorways as well as a rainbow of semi-solid basics. Unbelievably squishy, this is the yarn to turn to when you want the ultimate in warmth (or the ultimate in speed!)

Have a good evening. Stay safe tomorrow - hopefully they are wrong with how much snow we are going to get.

Everglow

Cheryl Faust has a new shawl pattern. I love her Mosaic Shawls.

Here is a link to Everglow on Ravelry.

Everglow celebrates a glow that lingers — the soft light at dusk, the warmth that remains after the sun has set, the sense of continuity between where we’ve been and where we’re going.

Everglow is a contemporary triangular shawl knit from the top down. From its I-cord cast-on, the shawl unfolds gradually, allowing the shifting tones to reveal themselves at a satisfying pace.

The striking mosaic stitch pattern creates visual depth while remaining approachable, as the colorwork is worked with just one color per row. Subtle shifts add interest without disrupting the flow of the knit, making Everglow both engaging and meditative on the needles.

The finished shawl drapes beautifully and styles effortlessly — worn wrapped close for warmth or loosely layered as an everyday accessory. Everglow is designed to feel timeless yet contemporary, offering a quiet statement through thoughtful detail and refined construction.

Why You’ll Love This Knit

• Mosaic knitting using one color per row
• A satisfying, repeatable stitch pattern you’ll quickly memorize.
• A balanced triangular shape that wears effortlessly and drapes beautifully.
• Visually rich fabric created from simple techniques
• Versatile styling for everyday wear or special moments

Cheryl uses a DK weight yarn with Spincycle Dream State. If I was picking yarn for the shawl I would use Malabrigo Rios. You can use two contrasting colours of Rios or one colour of Rios with one colour of Dream State. I haven’t purchased the pattern but I’m confident in saying that you can use any thickness of yarn with the appropriate needles. The mosaic stitch pattern keeps repeating so you can knit the shawl as large or as small as you want it.

 

Linda shared a picture of her finished Gnandad. He is gorgeous. 

30 rows to go. 

The Stellar Shawl

Joji has a new shawl pattern (pattern purchased on Ravelry). You need 4 skeins of fingering weight yarn to make this stunner. You have many, many options. I didn’t have time to put together combinations today. Lynn was busy emptying boxes and I was busy updating the website. Lots of Cascade 220 Heathers and Cascade 220 Superwash Merino.

Release Promo! Get The Stella Shawl 20% off until Jan 25, 2026. No code needed!

I have always been inspired by geometric art. Some of my best knitted pieces have evolved from minimalist paintings, drawings and modern architecture.  

This is my second shawl inspired by the work of artist Frank Stella (the first one was The Frank Shawl). 
I hope you enjoy knitting it!

About This Project
This geometric shawl is made from 3 similar pieces, worked in sequence. These pieces are built using short rows, to achieve the geometric lines.

I have been struggling lately with blog posts. There haven’t been a lot of new patterns and we don’t see new yarns until the spring. All of a sudden I have at least three days worth of posts. There are new patterns and we’re going to see a box with new colours tomorrow. 

Beth is on her way from having her hair cut and she’s bringing dinner. I’m going to say good evening. 

Nightshift # 13 or 14 or 15?

Alex brought my finished Nightshift in last week but it’s been so cold I haven’t taken it outside. Today it was snowing like crazy so I took a picture in the store. Blocking does make all the difference. The shawl looked good when the knitting was finished but now it looks amazing!

Yes I love knitting the Nightshift. I’m not sure if this is my 13th, 14th, 15th or a number even higher.

Pattern: Nightshift by Andrea Mowry (purchased on Ravelry)

Yarn: 2 colours of Noro Ito - 1 ball each

Colour: 76 & 91

Needles: 5.5mm

Today’s shipments. Two large boxes of Cascade and the third box has Noro Ito, Patagonia and Lykke needle sets. Lynn is coming tomorrow in her running shoes to put yarn away.

It’s a great evening to be inside and knitting. I’m working on my Ooey Gooey Cowl. A few more rows and I’ll have repeated the pattern twice. Then I have 62 rows until finished.

A decade ago

I’m seeing a lot on Instagram about looking back to 2016. Andrea Mowry showed some of her patterns from 2016 in her latest newsletter. 

One pattern that came out was Find Your Fade. 

This is the start of my first Find Your Fade from December 2016.

Here is Andrea’s version. Unfortunately Hedgehog has discontinued one of the colours so we can’t match the colours exactly but I can put together something equally as beautiful.

You can purchase the pattern for Find Your Fade on Ravelry.

Starting at a single point and growing, shifting and fading into a piece that begs to be wrapped up in. This asymmetrical triangle shawl uses some clever increasing and decreasing, combined with relaxing garter stitch and simple lace so that you have a fun-to-knit canvas to play with mixing colors on! This shawl is all about making it your own. Let your creativity shine!!  

Get creative - this is YOUR shawl! Use only 1 color, or 3, or 10. Need help with color selections? I highly recommend diving into your stash (or the shelves of your LYS) and untwisting the skeins and then laying them next to each other. Look for nuances that can be seen from one color to the next - if your first color has some gold (like mine), why not snag an awesome speckled skein that also has some gold and another color you love (ahem - pink), so that after the speckled skein you can start stitching up that favorite pink skein you have been hoarding! And so on and so forth! Still feeling nervous? Head on over to my Ravelry group and show some pictures of the yarn you are trying to decide between! Everyone there loves to help!!

I finished the shawl by the middle of January 2017. I couldn’t put the shawl down because it was such a fun knit. So fun that I knit it twice more.

The furnace in the store started acting up on Saturday. I spent the day in the store yesterday waiting for the repairman to come fix it. After a few hours he said it was good. I accomplished a lot of paperwork but got home after dark by the time he was done. I was cold and tired and after dinner went for a nap. When I woke up Beth had picked a movie. It didn’t win any Academy Awards but it kept us laughing. I couldn’t stop watching to post. 

This morning I went to the store and it is nice and warm again. After errands I sat and knit for a bit.

I’m two rows short of the halfway point. I am obsessed. I think there will be another one in my future. Th only problem is that Boscoe can’t keep picking up my ball of Dyed in the Wool. Dad thinks it’s so funny and keeps telling Boscoe to bring it to him.

I’m early today because this afternoon I’m having my hair cut. Then it’s my job to make dinner since it was my day off. There will be some more knitting tonight.